Ubuntu Contracts in the East of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 107 110
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 +26
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 7 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.61% 0.21% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.86% 1.61% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £283 - £140
25th Percentile £331 £435 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +10.00% +63.27%
75th Percentile £441 £445 £419
90th Percentile £444 - £430
England median daily rate £500 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -1.09% -8.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £69.38
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -5.84%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 245 249 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.43% 13.07% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 146 282
10th Percentile £178 £194 £163
25th Percentile £208 £266 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £478 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% +12.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 47 53
10th Percentile £15.70 £14.31 £13.06
25th Percentile £17.45 £45.63 £13.29
Median hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £19.51
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +207.53% -31.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £66.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £20.38 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.50% -41.18% +93.18%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the East of England

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +26 7 £425 -3.41% 8
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) OpenStack
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) iSCSI
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Administrator
2 5 (71.43%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (71.43%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps Administrator
5 1 (14.29%) IT Administrator
5 1 (14.29%) IT Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Centre
1 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (71.43%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) CentOS
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
1 5 (71.43%) ITSM
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) NetApp
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat